Post Tagged with: "psych"

Anxious times got you down? Wooden Shjips promise the peace train is coming on their upcoming LP V., due out May 25th via Thrill Jockey. This will be the quartet’s aptly named fifth long-player, and the basic tracking was recorded by Jason Powers at Types Foundry Studio in Portland, with Chicago psych master Cooper Crain (Cave, Circuit Des Yeux) handling […]

Let us introduce you to the mysterious new Italian duo R A D K O. The pair, comprised of members Angelo Mauro and Riccardo Cammalleri, is getting set to release their Cherno PPP / Brutalista 7″ via Enfant Terrible this coming February. Today we watch the video for “Cherno PPP,” directed by fellow musician Lissa Benno of Age Eternal. The […]

Winter got you in a deep freeze? The San Fransisco-based trio Verst has just the answer with their volcanic cut, “Haleakala,” off the band’s latest LP David Slain (Cream Cloud Records). The trio is helmed by guitarist/vocalist John Dickey, formerly of the 90’s era Boston-based band Pie, as well as a number of more recent West Coast projects including Psionic […]

If it sounds like all hell is breaking loose on Screature‘s new single “North Of Order,” the band has informed us that it is. “Order is a cruel illusion,” the group explains, and on this devastatingly heavy cut, the Sacremento-based four-piece offers some serious sonic evidence for their claim. A pummeling maelstrom right out of the gate, drummer Miranda Vera […]

Last month we told you about the guys in Bee Bee Sea, a fuzzed-out Italian psych rock trio with a brand new LP called Sonic Boomerang out now on Dirty Water Records (digital, cassette)/Wild Honey Records (vinyl). Surf’s up on this tasty little number called “D.I. Why Why Why,” a raucous sing-along fueled by Damiano Negrisoli’s souped-up guitar riffs. The […]

I’m sure you’ll be hearing Screature‘s new single “Hit The Void” on our list of Best Tracks of 2017! The Sacremento-based band’s upcoming LP Old Hand New Wave was produced by Chris Woodhouse (Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Wand), and is due out January 19th via the group’s label imprint, Ethel Scull Records. Screature features vocalist Liz Mahoney, drummer Miranda […]

Guadalajara-based composer/multi-instrumentalist Ben Zár released his solo debut There Is No Distortion In Heaven this month via Seattle’s Halfshell Records. Part of a vibrant psychedelic scene in Mexico, Benjamin Zarate also plays in the bands Antoine Reverb and Dorotheo. Last month the Seattle Times chronicled how a chance encounter at a bar in Guadalajara back in 2013 between Seattle band […]